DAVID, Giovanni (1743-90):

Le perruquier fatigué,from the series of 12 costumed figures, Divers portraits gravés à l’eau-forte

Etching and aquatint, 1775. Le Blanc 15; Schleier/Grasso 12, first state of two, before the addition of aquatint. With satirical comment below from Boileau’s Satires.

A fine impression of this lightly-worked state in pure etching, with margins all round. A fox-mark in the upper margin, a very pale smudge at the lower platemark, and a couple of red chalk marks in the right margin, otherwise in very good condition.
240 x 167mm.
$1,900